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| | Review, buy Baking: The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking, Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) |
 | | The essence of Alton Brown's book is not to simply follow recipes, but to get a deep understanding of what is going on during the baking process. |
| | The introduction goes over the layout of the book and how it should be used (the ingenious "method flaps" for instance), the low down on how to read recipes, the importance of measuring by weight vs. volume, and baking's five core steps. |
| | The book opens with a complete encyclopedia of the core ingredients or "the molecular pantry"-what they are, what they do, and how they play together (or don't). |
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